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The Office of Management and Budget will collect spending and budget information from agencies to ramp up personnel security. This management priority accompanied other requests in a memo released Friday, which also included agency's benchmarking and providing customer service data.

The government will save money on mass transit
for federal employees thanks to this year's
SAVE award winner. Frederick Winter's idea to
switch eligible feds from a regular transit
fare to a reduced senior fare will lower the
cost of those employees' travel by 50 percent.

The four ideas received the most votes over the last four months out of more than 10,000 ideas. This is the fourth year OMB has held the SAVE Awards. The winner presents their idea to President Obama and gets it included in the 2014 budget request.

The White House kicked off the fourth annual
SAVE
Award, seeking cost-cutting ideas from those
who
know best how to help Uncle Sam pinch pennies —
federal employees. Employees have until July
24th
to submit ideas for reducing government
spending.

The 2011 Save Award winner met with President Obama Monday to present his idea to create a lending library at NASA. Matthew Ritsko said his suggestion was built off of an effort by the space agency to become more efficient. He said two related efforts are underway to improve how NASA manages and shares tools and equipment.